Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inauguration Day: Off to the Capitol

Roger Simon write on Politico this morning: "I have never seen so much hope, so much optimism and so much sheer joy as in Washington this week."

That captures it. The street scene is like an Istanbul bazaar - hordes of people, everyone well-behaved, striding by retail encampments offering street food (Shep's Chicago Polish sausages look awfully good for breakfast), memorabilia (looks like someone emptied every Washington Post box the morning after Election Day and slipped copies of the paper into glassine sleeves for sale today), tees, totes, red, white and blue boas, and on an on - an unfathomable variety of... stuff.

We decided not to beat the rush, but to take a more Zen approach. We're cabbing to Union Station to our designated security entrance - and making very good time, all things considered.

More from on-site.

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